Garment bagging device



April 15, 1941. J. L. TIMM Em- 2,238,297

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Filed March 12 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 grvue/wtoms JL .7? m 777 6. fl/Vormi Patented Apr. 15, 1941 GARMENT BAGGING, DEVICE John L. Timm, Carl A. llltarmington, and Kenneth L. Staven, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.

Application March 1.2, 1940, Serial No. 323,602

3 Claims. (p1. 24816l) This invention relates to devices to be used in dry cleaning establishments and pertains particularly to means for facilitating the placing of garments within protective bags while the garments are supported upon hanger members.

The primary object of the present invention is to providea device for facilitating the placing of protective envelopes over cleaned garments while the latter are suspended upon a hanger member, such device including a novel means for maintaining the protective envelopes in a position relative toa support for the garment so that the envelope may be readily drawn from its support over the garment, and means for dropping the garment support after the envelope has been placed in position. and the operator takes hold of the exposed garment hanger so that the suspended garment within the bag can be removed toanother suitable support without having tobe lifted off of its first support by the operator of the device.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a device of the character stated, a supporting meansfor a hanger suspended garment, which is adapted to be adjusted vertically to desired fixed positions and which has associated therewith a novel foot actuated means by which it may be released to drop by gravity to a lowered position so as to facilitate the removal of. a bagged gar- 'ment.

A still further object is to provide a device for facilitating the bagging of cleaned garments in which there is provided a bag supporting rack and a vertically adjustable garment support, the upper end of which is at a lower elevation than the bag rack whereby bags may be conveniently drawn from the rack directly over the support and a garment suspended by a hanger from the support, the support having associated therewith a locking means for holding it in a vertically adjusted position and a foot actuated release for such locking means whereby the support may be allowed to drop back to a lowered position to facilitate the removal of a hanger suspended bagged garment therefrom.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not to be confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the device embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in top plan of the bag supporting rack.

' minating in a fioor engaging foot 6.

, Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the device showing a garment hanger upon the garment support.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Referring now moreparticularly to the drawings, the numeral I generally designates the base for the present garment bagging device, which base comprises a central unit 2 from which radiate lateral arms 3, a rearwardly extending arm 4 and a forwardly extending arm 5, each arm ter- Extending upwardly from the unit 2 is a standard I which may be of tubular form or which may be of solid form and tubular at its upper end, as may be preferred, the hollow upper end portion of the standard here being indicated by the numeral 8.

Fo-rwardly of the standard I is a vertically disposed guide sleeve 9, the lower end of which is coupled with, the forwardly extending arm 5, as indicated at Ill. The upper end of this guide sleeve! is cut obliquely, as indicated at H, and

extending into the sleeve is an elevator rod I2, the

upper end of which is provided with the transverse notch l3. 3 Surrounding the rod 12 is a collar M which is tipped or tilted slightly by the oblique upper end ll of the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 3,-so as to bring an inner edge into engagement with the rod I2 to hold the rod against downward movement in the sleeve. It will be readily seen that when this collar M has its lower side raised to the horizontal plane of the highest point of the obliquely cut end H of the sleeve, the rod will be free to slide down into the sleeve. Within the lower end of the sleeve 9 is a cushion l5 of suitable material, preferably. rubber, upon which the rod rests when it. is in its lowermost position and this cushion functions to absorb the shocks and noise incident to the'dropping of the rod. The coupling l0 between the sleeve 9 and the arm 5 is here shownas being in the form of a standard pipe T, so that one arm of this T forms an upwardly directedshoulder It at the lower end ofthe sleeve. However, if the device is made of solid material instead of being formed from tubular material as here shown, this shoulder might be cast as an integral part of the lower end of the sleeve.

At one side ofthe arm 5 there is disposed a lever H which extends longitudinally of the arm and is pivotally attached, as at l8,preferably to the adjacent foot 6, for oscillation on a horizontal axis. Theinner end of this lever [1- is provided with a laterally extending lip H! which engages upon the top of the shoulder l6, as shown in Fig. 4, and the outer end of the lever is shaped to provide a foot treadle 29 which, when depressed, raises the lip I9 from the shoulder I6.

Directly above the lip I9, the sleeve 9 has secured thereto vertically alined guides 2|, through which extend a trip rod 22, the lower end of this rod resting upon the lip l9, as shown in Fig. 4, while the upper end of the rod, when the rod is in its lowermost position, is below the horizontal plane of the highest side of the obliquely cut end H of the sleeve. However, when the treadle 20 is depressed to lift the inner end of the lever and consequently the trip rod, the upper end of the trip rod will rise sufficiently to lift the collar to a horizontal position so that the elevator rod, if previously held by the collar M in a raised position, will be free to drop onto the cushion 15. The numeral 23 indicates a rack or frame which is horizontally supported upon the upper end of the standard 1. This frame consists of a number of spaced parallel members 24 which are connected at their ends by the cross members 25 and the central one of the members 24 has connected therewith, through the medium of a T-coupling 26 when the frame is formed of tubular or pipe material as here shown, a downwardly extending pivot pin 2'? which extends into the tubular upper end portion 8 of the standard 1. Thus the rack is supported on the standard for rotation around a vertical axis.

The outer longitudinal members 24 of the frame or rack are employed for the support of a num-- ber of bags 23 of the type commonly employed for enveloping or wrapping garments after they have been cleaned and one of the bars may be employed for supporting long bags while the other one may be employed for supporting shorter bags. Because of the fact that the rack 23 is easily rotated, a bag of either size may be readily brought into position adjacent the upper end of the elevator rod [2, as shown in Fig. 1.

In the use of the present device, the garment to be wrapped is suspended by means of a hanger 29 from the upper end of the elevator rod l2 after the rod has been lifted to the desired elevation by the operator, the hook of the hanger being engaged in the notch IS. The operator, standing in front of the elevator rod, then takes hold of a bag or envelope 28, the open end of which is nearest the elevator rod, and draws the open end of such bag down over the elevator rod and the garment suspended therefrom, in the manner indicated in broken lines in Fig. 1. Such bags have at their closed ends a central opening for the hook portion of the garment hanger to pass through, as is well known, and thus after the bag has been drawn down completely over the garment, the hook of the hanger will project through the top of the bag. The operator may then take hold of the hook and while so doing apply his foot to the treadle 20 and press down thereon to lift the trip rod 22. This will release the collar [4 from engagement with the elevator rod I2 in the manner previously described and permit the elevator rod to drop back in the sleeve 9 to rest upon the cushion I5, leaving the wrapped garment in the operators hand.

While the device here illustrated has been shown as being constructed entirely of pipe or tubular material, the base particularly being made up of pipes and couplings such as are commonly employed in plumbing, it is to be understood that it is within the scope of the present invention to make the base structure in the form of a single cast piece and that it is to be understood, therefore, that the invention is not confined to a pipe construction as here illustrated.

What is claimed is:

1. A garment bagging device, base, a vertically disposed sleeve base, an elevator rod having its lower end extended into said sleeve, means at the upper end of said rod for the attachment of a garment hanger thereto, means encircling the elevator rod and resting upon the upper end of said sleeve for securing the elevator rod in a raised position in the sleeve, said means comprising a collar and said sleeve being obliquely cut at its upper end, and means for shifting said collar for the release of the elevator rod, comprising a vertically reciprocable trip rod disposed at the side of the sleeve, and a lever pivotally attached to the base and having an outer end formed to provide a treadle and an inner end supporting said trip rod.

2. A garment bagging device, comprising a base, a tubular standard disposed vertically on the base and having an obliquely cut top end, a shoulder formed at the lower end of the standard, a rod vertically slidable in the tubular standard and extending above the upper end thereof, the rod being designed to support a garment hanger, a flat annulus encircling the rod and canted with respect to the rod by contact with the oblique top end of the standard to engage and frictionally hold the rod against lengthwise movement, a treadle pivotally attached to the base and having an end provided with a lateral flange arranged to engage on said shoulder to limit oscillation of said end downwardly, and a trip rod slidably held adjacent to and parallel with the side of the standard nearest the low side of said top for engagement under said annulus, the lower end of said trip rod resting on the flanged end of the treadle.

3. garment bagging device, comprising a base, including a horizontal portion, a vertical tubular body connected to the horizontal portion comprising a carried by the I of the base by a coupling union, an end of said union forming a shoulder at the lower end of the tubular body, a treadle arm pivotally attached to the said horizontal portion of the base for oscillation. on a horizontal axis, said treadle arm at one end being flattened to form a treadle and said arm at its other end being laterally turned toward the tubular body to form a flange, the

flange overlying said shoulder and normally resting thereon to prevent the said other end from moving downwardly beyond a predetermined position, a rod slidably supported in the tubular body, the rod being designed to support a garment hanger, a flat annulus encircling the rod and engaging said obliquely cut end of the body to be canted thereby into holding connection with the rod, guide members secured to the side of the tubular body nearest the low side of the obliquely cut end thereof, and a trip rod slidably held in parallel relation with the tubular body by and extending through said guide members and resting at its lower end upon the lateral flange of said arm and having its upper end disposed beneath the low side of the canted annulus.

JOHN L. TIMM.

CARL A. NORMINGTO N.

KENNETH L. STAVEN. 

